Democrat Quote by Steven Spielberg

There's a lot of confusion about the political ideologies of both parties [Democrats and Republicans] have switched 180 degrees in 150 years. It just…

— Steven Spielberg

Traditional Republicanism grew up in the 1850s as opposed to the Democrats, who always saw the world kind of as a 'us vs. them'…

— Heather Cox Richardson

In 1860, the Republicans put Lincoln in the White House, and Southerners left the Union. Their absence opened the way for the new party…

— Heather Cox Richardson

In the 20th century there's was the long-running division in the Republican Party between what was known as Wall Street and Main Street Republicans.…

— John Aldrich

“Today the Republican Party attracts neither the farmer nor the industrial worker. Why not? To represent the people one must know them. Lincoln did.…

— Anonymous

“After the Lincoln-Douglas debates made Lincoln a nationally recognized politician, Illinois papers began to mention Lincoln as a Republican candidate for President throughout 1859. …

— Charles River Editors

We've changed in the sense that we flipped - and this is no longer the Republican party of Lincoln. This is the party of…

— Andrew Young

But having said all of that, that still doesn't account for a lot of the increase in popularity which stems, I think, from Lincoln's…

— David Herbert Donald

“Lincoln was “the most truly progressive man of the age, because he always moves in conjunction with propitious circumstances, not waiting to be dragged…

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

Lincoln was a modernizer, so to speak. He believed in economic development. As a Whig before the war he favored what we would call…

— Eric Foner

In 1964, the GOP ceased to be the party of Lincoln and became the party of Southern whites.

— Max Boot

Partisanship particularly increased after the 1994 elections and then the appearance of the first unified Republican government since the 1950s.

— Thomas E. Mann